| Description |
ix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
(cont.) Joseph Campbell's theory of myth / Robert A. Segal -- Earth-diver : creation of the mythopoeic male / Alan Dundes -- The story of Asdiwal / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- The world conception of Lajos Ámi, storyteller / Sándor Erdész -- The myth of Washington / Dorothea Wender |
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The forms of folklore : prose narratives / William Bascom -- Theories concerning "nature myths" / Jan De Vries -- The problem of defining myth / Lauri Honko -- On defining myths / G.S. Kirk -- Slippery words : myth / J.W. Rogerson -- The fall of man / James G. Frazer -- The truth of myth / Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Myth and story / Theodor H. Gaster -- Cosmogonic myth and "sacred history" / Mircea Eliade -- An ideological dichotomy : myths and folk beliefs among the Shoshoni / Åke Hultkrantz -- The creation myths of the North American Indians / Anna Birgitta Rooth -- The cultural-historical background of myths on the separation of sky and earth / K. Numazawa -- The role of myth in life / Bronislaw Malinowski -- The plasticity of myth : cases from Tikopia / Raymond Firth -- The flexibility of myth / Th. P. Van Baaren -- The mythic / Eric Dardel -- The psychology of the child archetype / C.G. Jung |
| Summary |
Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This new volume brings together classic statements on the theory of myth by the authors. The twenty-two essays by leading experts on myth represent comparative, functionalist, myth-ritual, Jungian, Freudian, and structuralist approaches to studying the genre |
| Analysis |
Myth |
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Myths Theories |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [343]-347 |
| Subject |
Myth.
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Mythology.
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| Author |
Dundes, Alan.
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| LC no. |
83017921 |
| ISBN |
0520051564 |
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0520051920 (paperback) |
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